if you're going to bark.. erm try to approach them with sensible information so you don't seem like the millions of others whos barked at them before you

Your area is probably assigned 1 IP block because you're connected to a particular bras (not those bras!)
Your office on the other hand, could be connected to another. There are MANY around.

My friend in damansara jaya is connected one that has multiple (bad, unfortunately) ip blocks.
Me in damansara intan just next door - locked to one bloody bad ip block.

How they assign who gets what .. is beyond me. People on the same street probably gets the same allocation but your neighbours behind you could get different ones entirely.

So the point is, it varies... quite without reason.

What we should be barking at them is why the hell different IP blocks get different routing treatment (which could ultimately be their internal policy so i don't know if things like that could be changed or not)

just my 2cents

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Added on March 25, 2009, 11:27 am

I've more or less given up for the time being.. just bought a 3g usb stick modem which provides me far FAR superior connectivity than streamyx at my area.. sigh. sad day for wired connectivity...